Let's play the feud!

Family feud turns into riot in small Ala. town
Up to 150 people brawl with tire irons, baseball bats; 8 arrested
AP

MARION, Ala. - Two Alabama families that had been fighting for years turned their feud into a full-scale riot Monday outside a small-town city hall, with up to 150 screaming people hurling tire irons and wielding baseball bats.

Eight people were arrested, and at least four were hurt, Trooper John Reese said. Two were taken to hospitals. The town's police chief was hit in the head with a crowbar but was OK.

The two- or three-year-old feud apparently prompted a fight earlier in the day at a high school, after a window was shot out of a home Sunday night. Then, "all hell broke loose" later in the day, said Sgt. Carlton Hogue of the Perry County Sheriff's Department.

"It was a full-scale riot is what it was," said Tony Long, mayor of the town of 3,300 about 85 miles west of Montgomery.

Hogue said the rioters were "throwing jack irons, throwing tire irons, anything they could get their hands on." Some people carried baseball bats and brooms.

This is the only problem about living in a decent sized city. You never have the chance to experience pure mob rule. The more cops a town has, the less the chance you have for a scene like this jumping off. It reminds me of the time Smithee wanted us all to go to the "Seagraves Town Party". Apparently 50% of Seagraves 6 cops went on vacation the same week every summer and a raucous town party was held. Whether it was true I'll never know. Maybe it was the coolest thing I've never experienced though. Who knows?

P.S. - Who was the silly bastard who brought a broom to this fight? You ever heard of a Maglite buddy?